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DOGE's AI-powered Take Your Child to Work Day
The DOGE-led General Services Administration is hosting AI workshops for kids of federal employees threatened with layoffs
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How federal workers can organize to stop DOGE
With Elon Musk’s influence waning, fed workers have a window to push back. Rutgers labor studies professor Eric Blanc explains how.
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The fury at 'America's Most Powerful'
Why there is currently an Iraqi Most Wanted-style deck of cards with Elon Musk's address for sale online
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The original slop: How capitalism degraded art 400 years before AI
Why AI-generated Studio Ghibli memes are literally chintzy — and why you've probably got chintz all wrong.
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Mike Pearl
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The five best Luddite episodes of Black Mirror
Black Mirror is probably the biggest luddite TV show. Here’s a guide to its most critical episodes.
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Therapists went on a hunger strike to protest 'assembly line' conditions and the automation of mental healthcare
Kaiser mental health workers have been striking for more time with patients, better pay, and to fight algorithmic triage—healthcare automation that puts…
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Turning the little screws
What Trump's trade war means for AI, automation and making iPhones in America
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Flyover Country
What a future where iPhones are made in America would really look like.
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The currents of anti-oligarchy protest and a great tick-tock nonfiction thriller about revolution
Blood in the media, part III
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This is what AI-generated trade policy looks like
On AGI, AI-generated tariffs, and what really threatens the social order
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March 2025

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